Burial-casket.



P. C. SIMMONS.

BURIAL GASKET.

APPLIOATION FILED DEG-.23,1912.

1 072,182 Patented sept. 2, 1913.

272.3: Swuenco'a Pez-er @Simmons P NI'IFD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER C. SIMMONS, OF FOREST LAKE, MINNESOTA.

BURIAL-GASKET.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, PETER C. SIMMONS, citizen of the United States, residing at Forest Lake, in the county of l/Vashiugton and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Burial- Caskets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements iu burial caskets, and its object is to provide means whereby a body laid in the casket may be as near a natural position of repose as possible. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in Which- Figure 1 is a vertical, longitudinal section of a casket showing my adjusting device in place with the actuating roller placed well up in the head of the casket. Fig. 2 is a plan of the casket with the cover removed to show the relative positions of the several elements that go to make up my invention. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section, as in Fig. 1, with the actuating roller near the bottom of the casket. Fig. 4 is a detached `view of the actuating screw gear and a short handled crank for use in manipulating the same when used as in Figs. l and 3, and Fig. 5 is a modified crank for use from the top oit' the casket in Fig. 3.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the accompanying drawing A repre sents an ordinary burial casket with the cover removed.

B represents a flexible auxiliary bottom to the casket that is secured to the lixed bottom, as at B, at one end, and the other end is secured to a laterally disposed shaft C at the head end of the casket. This shaft may be placed well up toward the top of the casket, as in Fig. 1, or well down toward the bottom of the casket, as in Fig. 3, and should be supported upon standards c o, so as not to pass into, or interfere with the sides of the casket. The shaft C has one member, as C', of a screw gear mounted upon it, and the other member, D,of the screw gear is mounted at the head of the casket upon proper supporting arms, as D', in position to Speccation of Letters Patent.

Application led December 23, 1912.

Patented Sept. 2, 1913. Serial No. 738,397.

properly mesh with the member C. This member of the screw gear has bearings rZ (Z that are designed to engage the arms D to hold the gear in proper position to actuate the gear C, and at the ends squares, as CZ', or other suitable const-ructi 'm, are formed for the reception ot' the cranks E or E', as the ease may be, by means oit' which the member D is made to revolve for the purpose of revolving the shaft C to wind up, or to unwind the llexible bottom on the roller C, for the purpose of adjusting the body to the desired position. When the shaft C is placed high up in the casket, as in Fig. 1, and it is desired to operate thc screw gears from above, or it the shaft is placed low down in the casket and it is desired to operate the gears from below, as indicated in Fig. 3, the short crank E may be used tothe bestadvantage,but it is is desired to operate the gears from below in Fig. 1, or 'from above in Fig. 3 it will be necessary to use the long handled crank E', shown in Fig. 5.

The slot A in the flexible bottom is necessary to allow the bottom B to be wound around the shaft C without danger of becoming clogged in the screw gear and obstructing the operation of the device.

lVhat is claimed as new, and desired to bc secured by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

1. In combination with a burial casket, a flexible auxiliary bottom secured at one end to the bottom ot the casket, and at the other end to a revoluble roller, and means for actuating said roller to properly adjust the auxiliary bottom.

2. In combination with a burial casket, a flexible auxiliary bottom secured at one end to the bottom of the casket, a revoluble roller secured to the other end oit the auxiliary bottom, a worm gear for actuating said roller for adjusting the auxiliary bottom.

Signed at Forest Lake, lrlinnesota, December' 9th, 1912.

PETER C. SIMMONS.

In presence of- HowAnD CARTER, A. F. WALKER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for live cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

